A novel real time hand detection based on skin-color

This paper proposes a novel real time hand detection algorithm based on skin-color. The proposed algorithm does not need training data and can be applied in dynamic and complex environments. The proposed method can directly find the palm area and fingers. It needs neither segmenting the wrist nor finding the contour. The detecting procedure is simple and fast. The experimental results show that the proposed method can detect hands in real time with low computing consumption under up to 3 meters of the distance between webcam and hand.